3+ day, 1+ hour ago   (587+ words) The ceremony will “honor and remember the lives lost on September 11, 2001, and recognize the courage, sacrifice, and service of those who responded that day,” the City of Pasadena said in its announcement of the event. The announcement invites the public…...

3+ day, 21+ hour ago   (350+ words) Members of Pasadena Housing Providers, a group of local landlords, wheeled and carried 17 file boxes up ramps and into an elevator, delivering them to the City Clerk’s office, the culmination of a months-long signature drive to place a measure repealing…...

3+ day, 13+ hour ago   (382+ words) Red Hen Press, the Pasadena nonprofit publisher, has released “Nine Grudges: The Spiteful Origins of the Happiest Dyke on Earth,” the debut memoir by the Tucson storyteller and comedian Molly McCloy. The book turns on a letter. In 1992, at 22 and…...

4+ day, 1+ hour ago   (251+ words) If two school board members up for recall are removed from office, the people will not have a vote in their replacement. Local residents are currently circulating petitions to place a ballot measure on the ballot that could allow local…...

5+ day, 2+ hour ago   (763+ words) In a functioning school district, administration brings the board clear recommendations — supported by data, cost analysis and alternatives. The board questions them, weighs them and decides. That is how governance is supposed to work. Thursday night showed what happens when…...

6+ day, 4+ hour ago   (180+ words) Michelle Berenfeld is the John A. McCarthy Professor of Classics at Pitzer College. Her new book describes nearly five centuries of representative government undone by wealth and power concentrated among elites, political violence, expansionist wars and a Senate that normalized emergency…...

6+ day, 21+ hour ago   (220+ words) According to the campaign, Lyon said: “I’m supporting Dennis because he’s a community minded, thoughtful listener. He has a passion for education and a good head for fiscal management. That is exactly the kind of leadership we need in the…...

1+ week, 2+ hour ago   (278+ words) The Editors of Pasadena Now go through over 100 articles published this week on our site and cull the top 20 most newsworthy, informative, and readable. Pasadena Names Its Rent-Registry Holdouts, and City Property Is on the List Pasadena Unified Board Edits…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (955+ words) Pasadena’s first public list of rental-registry holdouts — built from 583 properties that had not registered as of June 30, among them a city-owned property a board member identified as senior housing and eight properties tied to a state housing authority — is headed…...